Health Visitors: Nottinghamshire
(asked on 7th July 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many health visitors have been employed in (a) Ashfield constituency and (b) Nottinghamshire in each year since 2010.
NHS Digital publishes workforce statistics and the following table shows full time equivalent Qualified Health Visitors working in the National Health Service in England at 30 September 2010 to 2016. Data for March 2017 is also provided as this is the latest available. Figures are for Nottinghamshire and include organisations in Ashfield constituency.
NHS Hospital and Community Health Services: Qualified Health Visitors working in NHS trusts and clinical commissioning groups in Nottinghamshire as at 30 September each specified year and latest data as at 31 March 2017
Qualified Health Visitors (full-time equivalent) | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | March-2017 |
Nottinghamshire | 0 | 85 | 113 | 133 | 136 | 154 | 145 | 122 |
Source: NHS Digital
Health visitors may be employed by NHS provider organisations, but may also be employed directly by local authorities, or other care providers. Health visitors employed by local authorities and/or other care providers will continue to provide health visiting services, but will not be included in figures relating to the NHS workforce.